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Proposed subspecies inopinus and capnitis, both from Hubei (east-central China), are synonyms of innominatus; rump colour varies within populations of innominatus, dark-rumped individuals having been described as subspecies pellos.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• brevirostris (Horsfield, 1840)   -  Himalayas and mountains of north-eastern India, south-central China (western Yunnan), Myanmar and Thailand. Winters to south-western Thailand and Malay Peninsula and possibly Sumatra.
• innominatus (Hume, 1873)   -  East-central and south-central China (Hubei, southern Sichuan, northern Guizhou, Yunnan) and northern Vietnam (north-western Tonkin). Winters to south-western Thailand and Malay Peninsula, occasionally to Andaman Is and possibly Sumatra.
• rogersi (Deignan, 1955)   -  Eastern Myanmar, western Thailand and northern Laos. Winters as far southern as Surat Thani (southern Thailand). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Indochinese Swiftlet (Collocalia rogersi).
• vulcanorum (Stresemann, 1926)   -  Mountains of Java.

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